Performance hints for v.3.1+
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 2:05 pm
Hi,I have been playing since version 2.0 and I can confirm that with the latest 3.5+ lot of things have changed for the good in the game, new features, a lot of fixes and improvements.The latest 3.5x version has added a FXAA graphic option, I'm eager to see what effect this has on general performance. with my Quad-Core i7, 3+ GH, 6 GB RAM and a NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS, I have made some personal tweakings in the form of a dedicated NVidia profile, the result was that I got good performance (good for that grafics card) in space, but really *miserable* framerates in FP mode which is: inside space stations when intereacting with NPCs. After searching for a long time, I have found the decisive tweak for getting good and fluid player handling in FP mode also, and this should be interesting for anyone, even with a ATI card. For NVidia card owners: It's crucial that the Image Scaling options of your card is set to "Display" and not to "GPU".Here's how you make sure of this: Go in your NVidia Control Panel > Display > Adjust desktop and positionHere it should read:Scaling: FullscreenPerforming Scaling on: Display My personal tweakings are here below, I'm using Nvidia Inspector, but you can simply make a game profile in your NVidia Control Panel. Profile:
Anisotropic filtering: 2xAnti-aliasing - FXAA: Off (You can also set this on, but then switch off AA - Mode, will look worser but enhance FPS)Anti-aliasing - gamma correction: OffAnti-aliasing - transparency: OffAnti-aliasing - Mode: 2x (this can be switched Off and FXAA On for better performance but don't set both to On)Anti-aliasing - Setting: Improve app settingCUDA - GPU's: AllMulti display: Single monitor performanceMax pre-rendered frames: 2Ambient occlusion: Not supportedThreaded optimization: OnPower management: Max PerformanceTexture filtering - Anisotropic optimization: OnTexture filtering - Quality: Quality (turn it lower for better FPS, but lower quality)Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: ClampTexture filtering - Trilinear optimization: OnVertical sync: Off (important)Triple buffering: Off (important) In-game settings:
In the grafics options, make these changes: Vsynch = OFF (if you set it on, you must ALSO set it on in your profile!)AA = OFF (your profile will overwrite this and AA will be enforced by your card)Shader quality = NormalAll Shadows = Off (try turning these on if you don't have FPS problems)LOD / Field of View = can all be set up to 30 (more with a powerful card)Gamma: Change it to your satisfaction (I increase it because all these stations are rather dark...) You should run fine with any 16:9 resolution, start setting the resolution to your native resolution and go down (still chose a 16:9 ratio) until you are satisfied. I hope all this will help you as it did for me.
Cheers,XenonS
Anisotropic filtering: 2xAnti-aliasing - FXAA: Off (You can also set this on, but then switch off AA - Mode, will look worser but enhance FPS)Anti-aliasing - gamma correction: OffAnti-aliasing - transparency: OffAnti-aliasing - Mode: 2x (this can be switched Off and FXAA On for better performance but don't set both to On)Anti-aliasing - Setting: Improve app settingCUDA - GPU's: AllMulti display: Single monitor performanceMax pre-rendered frames: 2Ambient occlusion: Not supportedThreaded optimization: OnPower management: Max PerformanceTexture filtering - Anisotropic optimization: OnTexture filtering - Quality: Quality (turn it lower for better FPS, but lower quality)Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: ClampTexture filtering - Trilinear optimization: OnVertical sync: Off (important)Triple buffering: Off (important) In-game settings:
In the grafics options, make these changes: Vsynch = OFF (if you set it on, you must ALSO set it on in your profile!)AA = OFF (your profile will overwrite this and AA will be enforced by your card)Shader quality = NormalAll Shadows = Off (try turning these on if you don't have FPS problems)LOD / Field of View = can all be set up to 30 (more with a powerful card)Gamma: Change it to your satisfaction (I increase it because all these stations are rather dark...) You should run fine with any 16:9 resolution, start setting the resolution to your native resolution and go down (still chose a 16:9 ratio) until you are satisfied. I hope all this will help you as it did for me.
Cheers,XenonS